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10/24/11

Le Corbusier's work has been rejected for the second time by UNESCO. We asked the director of the Fondation Le Corbusier Michel Richard to explain why he thinks the group's efforts have come up short...Read more at Domus.

10/12/11

He bought 180 acres and a very old farm compound on Bound Brook Island for $3,500 dollars from Katie Dos Passos, wife of the writer John Dos Passos...Read more at Cape Cod Modernist Trust. Photos: Jack Hall and his wife in front of Hall House # 1, Wellfleet, circa 1952.

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10/7/11

Originally published in Domus 312/November 1955:A new Unité d'habitation by Le Corbusier was recently completed in Nantes. The new building is about the same size as that of Marseille (300 rooms instead of 330) but its construction cost one quarter that of the Marseille Unité. To respect the budget set by HLM [habitations à loyers modérés]), Le Corbusier had to sacrifice a series of special details adopted in Marseille...See more at Domus.